A group of Bills, tall silhouettes in the backlit mist, had hustled out of the restaurant to help her, the same thing they'd been doing for many customers for at least a solid hour. Manning recognized center Eric Wood, punter Colton Schmidt, long snapper Reid Ferguson, tackle Dion Dawkins, guard Ryan Groy and tackle Conor McDermott, who stands 6-foot-8.

And there might have been more.

That meant she had somewhere in the area of 1,800 pounds of human being helping to push the car, guys whose entire job is essentially to move the unmovable. A couple of them were shoveling and a couple of them were pushing and Manning, at their direction, hit the gas.

After a few seconds of back and forth she felt that sweet feeling we all know, that magnificent instant when your car bursts loose after being stuck in the snow.

Manning, free and clear, was on her way back to Angola.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Buffalo coach Sean McDermott said he hadn't heard about any Bills pushing cars, but that "it doesn’t surprise me with our guys. We’ve tried to do things the right way, and the players know that this is what we do."